π· April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 2: Flowers

π· April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 2: Flowers
π· Day01 : toy (@pcora)
Currently reading: Slow Horses by Mick Herron π
Lambβs laugh wasnβt a genuine surrender to amusement; more of a temporary derangement. Not a laugh youβd want to hear from anyone holding a stick.
I enjoyed the TV series, but the book is even better.
Finished reading: The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry πβ β β β β
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
Currently reading: Sibley’s Birding Basics by David Allen Sibley π
Finished reading: Dune by Frank Herbert π β β β β β
There is no better teacher than history in determining the future. There are answers worth billions of dollars in a $30 history book.π
Charlie Munger
Camped along the Colorado River here at Davis Camp on the Arizona-Nevada border. Smaller rigs can nose right up to the edge of the river. This is my kind of camping.
Currently reading: Dune by Frank Herbert π
Rereading ahead of seeing the movie. I had forgotten how much I loved this book.
Finished reading: I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh π β β β ββ
After three good years with Craft, I’ve moved my reading notes and PKM to Bear. I really love Bear’s simplicity and hidden power on both Mac and iOS. No futzing, just my words. Blog post: Bear 2 for Writing and Thinking.
Currently reading: I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh π
Thursday, February 15, 2024 β
Finished reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin π
This was a good book. I liked the characters and the storyline. The reasons Sam and Sadie found to be mad at the other were a little frustrating, but I think thatβs ultimately the lesson they each needed to learn. The portrayal of grief and loss was really well done. β β β β β
Thank you @Annie for the recommendation!
Finished reading: The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov π
Currently reading: The Reformation by Will Durant π
Finished reading: The Renaissance by Will Durant π
Steinbeck captures my basic attitude towards New Years Resolutions here in the third week of January:
It is very strange that when you set a goal for yourself, it is hard not to hold toward it even if it is inconvenient and not even desirable.
Itβs been a couple years since I finished In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. I read all six volumes with an amazing Twitter book group over the course of a year. I struggled with the serpentine sentences and French society references at the time, but passages like these stuck with me. π
Currently reading: The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov π
Finished reading: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree π
Finished reading: Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li π
My 75th book of 2023, which is a new personal record for the most books I’ve read in a single year. Many of the stories in this collection touch on the hard to articulate grief of losing a child, which hit home for me. β β β β β
Currently reading: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong π
Finished reading: Holly by Stephen King π
Thursday, December 28, 2023 β
I found this lovely bookmark in my Christmas stocking. Santa knows me so well! π
Thursday, December 21, 2023 β
Finished reading: The Private Library by Reid Byers π
Book-wrapt β that beneficient feeling of being wholly imbooked, beshelved, inlibriated, circumvolumed, peribibliated … it implies the traditional library wrapped in shelves of books, and the condition of rapt attention to a particular volume, and the rapture of of being transported to the wood beyond the world.
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Entering our library should feel like easing into a hot tub, strolling into a magic store, emerging into the orchestra pit, or entering a chamber of curiosities, the club, the circus, our cabin on an outbound yacht, the house of an old friend. It is a setting forth, and it is a coming back to center. Borges, of course, thought it was entering Paradise.
Sometimes a book feels like it was written just for you. May we all find ourselves Book-wrapt this holiday season. β β β β β
Wednesday, December 20, 2023 β
Currently reading: Holly by Stephen King π
Tuesday, December 19, 2023 β
Finished reading: Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark π
A slow read over the course of a few months, one chapter/writing tool per sitting. Lots of great tips and advice to improve your writing.
Finished reading: The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan W. Watts π
Another compelling argument for being present in our lives, and paying close attention to the marvels that surround us.
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself as anything less than a god?
Saturday, December 16, 2023 β
Currently reading: Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li π
Thursday, December 14, 2023 β
Finished reading: The Vagabond’s Way by Rolf Potts π